Robotics

"Lighthouse" at IME 2012 - 2016 - strategic research arena

Lighthouse Robotics

Robotics

Robotics is a technology area which will be essential for future Norwegian industry to ensure competitiveness and high quality products. Robotics can substitute high cost labor in demanding environments and contribute to the reduction of production costs and more efficient operations. Further research and development is needed to bring new robotics technology to Norwegian industry and society to solve our future challenges.

Robotics is an enabling technology with a number of application areas as oil/gas production, process industry, medicine, health and welfare. It is also a multidisciplinary theme which involves a number of technologies as communication technology, automatic control, autonomy, human-machine interface, sensor technology, electronics and computer science.

The lighthouse project

The main purpose of the lighthouse project is to further develop the high level research activity within robotics at NTNU IME supporting and initiating new collaboration initiatives within IME technology areas.

The lighthouse project is part of ROBOTNOR, Centre for Advanced Robotics, established together with SINTEF in 2012. The lighthouse project includes 2 PhD positions.